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CLOCK TIME 1
GOLF TEE MINUTES CLOCK

PREREQUISITE:
Hundred Chain - able to count by ones to sixty
Parts of a clock - 3 part cards

Direct Aim:
Concept of telling time by minutes *after* the
hour, and minutes *before* the hour.

Indirect Aim:
Preparation for further study in history.

PRESENTATION SUMMARY:
Introduction to Parts of the Clock:
First introduce the child to the nomenclature of
the parts of the clock with 3-part cards
highlighting in red: the clock, the clock face,
minute hand, hour hand, minutes, and hours.
The introduction of the second hand and
seconds is optional at this time. Child matches
the pictures and labels to the one-piece control
cards. Later child can self-quiz and lay the
picture cards first, then laying and matching
the label cards to the pictures, and finally
using the one-piece control cards to self-
check.

Using the three period lesson with a small wall
clock repeat the names of the parts of the
clock saying this is: (name the part of the
clock). The second period is where you ask
the child for a physical response saying: show
me, or point to (name part of the clock). After
the child has practiced, point to a part of the
clock and then ask the child for a 3rd period
verbal response saying: what is this?

Additional vocabulary:
short hand (hour hand)
long hand (minute hand)



Parts of the Clock
3 Part Cards






Golf Tee
Minutes
Clock
MATERIALS:

! Parts of a Clock
3 part laminated cards - one set with picture
and label together and one set with picture
and label cut apart.
! Minutes Clock
A 12 x 12 laminated clock face mounted on
Styrofoam with a plywood base. Holes are
punched in the board at each of the 60
minute slots on the clock. Removable
laminated minute and hour hands with foam
backing revolve around the clock with a golf
tee center.
! Tee Storage Board
A 12 x 6 laminated grid mounted on
Styrofoam with a plywood base. Designed
for orderly storage of golf tees.
12
11
hour hand
12 12
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CLOCK TIME 2
GOLF TEE MINUTES CLOCK
(continued)

Exercise 1:
Introduce the Golf Tee Minutes Clock saying:
This is a special material to help us learn
about time. This material is called: Golf Tee
Minutes Clock. Can you say that?

First present the concept of Hours - using the
golf tee minutes clock without the clock hands
inserted, saying: Look at the red numbers on
this clock. How many numbers are there?
There are 12 red numbers on this clock. These
numbers are the hours on the clock - lets say
the numbers together (counting 1-12). Then
place *only* the red hour hand in the clock and
say this is the hour hand. Count the numbers
1-12 again, pointing the red hour hand to each
number as you go around the clock.

Exercise 2:
Explore concept of minutes with the clock
saying: Look at all these pink dots. Lets count
them (counting 1-60). There are sixty pink
dots on this clock and there are sixty minutes
in one hour.

Present the concept of *minutes after* with the
pink tees numbered 1-59. Starting with the 1
minute pink dot, remove the 1 tee from the
tee storage board and place the 1 tee in the
minutes clock saying, 1 minute after.
Continue in the same manner around the
entire clock saying: 2 minutes after, 3 minutes
after and so on. When you get to the oclock
tee say: there are 60 minutes on this clock but
when we get to 60 minutes it is a new hour so
we say oclock, placing the oclock tee.




Exercise 3:
Present the digital time pink golf tees
numbered 01 - 09, explaining: Not all
clocks have long and short hands to tell time.
Sometimes clocks have only numbers, with
no clock face and no hands. These clocks
are called digital clocks. Can you find a
digital clock in this room? Lets count now
with digital time, counting and replacing the
1 to 9 tees with the 01 to 09 tees.

Exercise 4:
Start by saying, the pink tees count the
minutes after the hour. Sometimes we count
by the minutes after and the minutes to the
hour. Watch me. Place the pink minutes
after tees 1-30 as before saying: 1 minute
after, 2 minutes after and so on. When you
get to the pink 30 tee then place next the
yellow 29 tee, saying: 29 minutes to, 28
minutes to and so on to the yellow oclock
tee.

Exercise 5:
Present the concept of minutes with the long
black minutes hand after the child has had
some practice with the golf tees. As you did
with the red hour hand, place only the black
minutes hand on the clock saying, lets
count the minutes now with the minutes
hand, pointing to the pink dots one at a time
with the minutes hand and counting from 1-
59 and then oclock. Repeat the exercise
with the minutes after and the minutes to.

Extension:
Rubber stamps with blank clock face.
Clock face worksheets.

Additional vocabulary:
Analog clock (clock face with hands)
Digital clock (no clock face or hands, only
numbers)
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CLOCK TIME 3
BLUE FIVE MINUTES
BARS & DISCS

Exercise 1:
Place the light blue five bead bars on the
Minutes clock - if the bead bars have 10mm
beads they should fit on sets of five empty
holes around the clock face of the golf tee
clock, saying there are five minutes between
each red number on this clock.. After bead
bars are placed, point to each one saying,
Lets count the minutes by fives: 5, 10, 15..
and so on.

Exercise 2:
Place blue hour discs and five bead bars in a
circle as on a clock face. Again count the fives
between the number discs. Now explain:
sometimes the numbers on a clock face are
not Arabic numerals like these (count again
the number discs 1-12.) Saying Now, watch
me. Replace each of the numeral discs 1-12
with the appropriate Roman numeral discs.
Explain: these are Roman numerals, lets
count with them, counting 1-12 around the
bead bar circle.

Exercise 3:
Demonstrate how to round off to the nearest
five minutes. If using the Blue Five Bead Bars
and Blue Numeral Discs use a wooden skewer
half the diameter of the clock to represent the
minute hand. Point the skewer minute hand to
various beads around the clock and have the
child estimate the nearest five minutes, e.g. if
the skewer hand is pointing to the 2nd bead on
the light blue bead bar after the blue number 3
hour disc (which is 17 minutes after) then the
five minute estimation would be 15 minutes
after.




Blue Five
Minute
Beads and
Hour Discs






MATERIALS:

! Five Minute Bead Bars & Numeral Discs
12 sets of light blue five bead bars and 12
blue hour plastic discs with Arabic numerals
and 12 blue plastic discs with Roman
numerals.

PREREQUISITE:
Five Square Chain - skip counting by fives

Direct Aim:
Concept of telling time by fives.
Estimation of time to nearest five minutes.

MINUTES
CLOCK
TEE STORAGE BOARD
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CLOCK TIME 4
QUARTER HOUR DISCS

PREREQUISITE:
Fraction Circles

Direct Aim:
Concept of time as a fraction of an hour.



PRESENTATION SUMMARY:

Exercise 1:
Introduce the concept of fractional time by
cutting two circles the size of the face of the
Golf Tee Minutes Clock. The first circle will be
cut in halves and the second circle cut into
fourths. Explain: sometimes we measure time
by the fraction of an hour. Show the halves
saying: An hour can be split into 2 parts -
each part is called half an hour. For example
if it is 2:30 on the clock we might say it is half
past 2. The clock can also be cut into a
fraction with four parts or fourths. We might
say it is a quarter past or quarter to the
hour.

Exercise 2:
Using the green set of digital time discs as the
control first lay the *oclock* discs in a
horizontal row in order from 1:00 to 12:00.
Under the digital time match the yellow set of
analog time discs. Each analog and written
time disc should have the digital time written
on the back of the disc for self checking. Next
introduce the *thirty discs* and lastly the *15
minute* and *45 minute* discs.




Quarter Hour Discs







MATERIALS:

! Quarter hour discs
A substitute for 3-part cards with clock
times. Color coded plastic discs with
laminated clock faces. 3 sets of clocks,
green set for digital time, yellow set for
analog time and orange set for written time.

Additional vocabulary:
Quarter past
Quarter after
Half past
Quarter to
Quarter of



three
oclock
12
3:00
Store Quarter Hour Time Discs,
Numeral Discs and blue five-bead
bars in Plano 3600 tackle box.
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CLOCK TIME 5
Geared Clock
and Minutes Task Cards

PREREQUISITE:
Golf Tee Minutes Clock
Quarter Hour Discs
Blue Five Minutes Bead Bars and Discs

Direct Aim:
Synthesis of clock lessons.

Exercise 1 - Quarter Hour Time:
Bring a synthesis to the quarter hour clock
lessons with a geared clock. First moving the
minute hand around to oclock positions,
saying 1 oclock, 2 oclock and so on to 12
oclock. Do the same with the half hours and
quarter hours.

Exercise 2 - Minutes Time:
Allow the child to work to mastery with random
times using digital Time Task Cards. You may
wish to start with a limited number of cards,
but eventually - the entire set of task cards
with digital time for every minute and hour on
the clock - can be placed in a fishbowl and
times randomly pulled out so the child can
mark the time on the Golf Tee Minutes Clock
or on the Geared Clock.

Extension AM/PM Time:
Cut two narrow strips of paper to fit around the
clock face of the Golf Tee Minutes Clock. Fit
the strip around the outside of the inserted
minutes golf tees. Mark each hour on each
strip of paper marking one with a.m. after each
hour and one strip with p.m. after each hour.
Tape the two strips together to illustrate a 24
hour day. Strips may be used to create a
personal time line of what the child does at
certain times of the day.




Geared Clock
Small 4 clock will do.





Time Task
Cards








MATERIALS:

! Geared Clock
A geared wall clock or educational learning
clock.
! Time Task Cards
Task cards with all the digital times for every
minute and hour on the clock.

Additional Vocabulary:
! a.m. - ante meridiem
(from Latin - before noon)
! p.m. - post meridiem
(from Latin - after noon)
! military time
has no a.m. or p.m. - consists of a 24
hour clock which starts with 1:00 at 1 a.m.
and continues to 24:00 (or 0:00) at midnight.